Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision ...

Researchers studying the 160-million-year-old fossils of a marine arthropod called Dollocaris ingens reveal how surprisingly sophisticated their huge eyes were. These little visual predators had more ...

View to a kill A fearsome predator that swam in the Cambrian oceans was in fact a metre-long arthropod with killer vision, say researchers. Palaeontologist Dr John Paterson, from the University of New ...

Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods. Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had ...

Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - a now extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over 20,000 species have been ...

Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods. Exquisitely preserved fossils left behind by creatures living ...